The 2011 Winter Television Season: Monday

Look, I’m not going to lie. I’m totally going to watch The Cape. But I look at this picture and think two things: 1. How silly must David Lyons have felt taking these photos and 2. I AM BATMANUEL!.

Mondays are all about guilty pleasures: Gossip Girl and 90210 and Hawaii Five-0 and Chuck — all shows that tell you to just go ahead and turn off your brain for a little while. It’s OK, you work hard, you deserve it. This winter we get to add to that a new season of The Bachelor, a new superhero series, The Cape, a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and remakes of two British series, Being Human and Skins, all of which we at Tubular HQ will be watching (or try to watch) because, hey, we work hard, we deserve it.

(We will also be watching Parenthood, which is not so much a guilty pleasure as it is an actual Good Show, but it didn’t fit my whole “guilty pleasure” theme, so.)

Even though this new series is debuting in about 7 weeks, for some reason CBS has not released a single trailer or photo for this new sitcom. Oh well. Here’s the premise: Jason Biggs is in love with Sarah Chalke. Sarah Chalke’s roommate is Judy Greer who hates Jason Biggs’ best friend, Tyler Labine (Sock from Reaper). Or does she? In other words, How I Met Your Mother, part the second.

Oh, NBC, are we going to do this again? Another super hero series? I’m still nursing some pretty serious wounds following the disastrous late seasons of Heroes, and I’m just not sure I’m ready to open myself up to being burned again. But then… Summer Glau? Keith David? Vinnie Jones? James Frain? OH WHO AM I KIDDING? I CAN NOT RESIST.